Biography:
Tom Russell (born in Los Angeles in either 1947 or 1948) is an American singer-songwriter from California, currently living in El Paso, Texas. His music incorporates elements of folk, traditional country & western, border and cowboy music of the American West. Russell's songs have been recorded by artists such as Johnny Cash, Ian Tyson, Nanci Griffith, Dave Alvin and others. In addition to his music, he is also an artist and published author.
In the 1980s Russell made four albums credited to the Tom Russell Band.
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Other songs:
- A Bowl Of Red
- A Hard Rains A
- A Land Called Way Out There
- Acres Of Corn
- Aint No More Cane On The Brazos
- Alkali
- All This Way For The Short Ride
- Amelias Railroad Flat
- America The Beautiful
- American Rivers
- Angel Of Lyon
- Beyond The Blues
- Box Of Visions
- Bucking Horse Moon
- Bus Station
- Canadian Whisky
- Carrickfergus
- Claude Dallas
- Criminology
- Cropduster
- Dance Hall Girls
- Down The Rio Grande
- East Of Woodstock West Of Viet Nam
- El Llano Estacado
- En Canadien Errant
- Evangeline Hotel
- Finding You
- Furious Love For Liz
- Gallo Del Cielo
- Guadalupe
- Gulf Coast Highway
- Hallie Lonnigan
- Hills Of Old Juarez
- If I Had A Gun
- Isaac Lewis
- Little Blue Horse
- Love Abides
- Love Makes A Fool Out Of The Wise
- Mandarin Oranges
- Manzanar
- Mineral Wells
- Navajo Rug
- Oil Field Girls
- Old Blue
- Pilgrim Land
- Racehorse Haynes
- Rambler Gambler
- Rider On An Orphan Train
- Rose Of San Joaquin
- Santa Fe At Midnight
- Sitting Bull In Venice
- Somebodys Husband Somebodys Son
- Sonoras Death Row
- Spanish Burgundy
- Stealing Electricity
- The Ballad Of Edward Abbey
- The Dutchman
- The Eyes Of Robert Duran
- The Eyes Of Roberto Duran
- The Greatest Show On Earth
- The John Bull Tin
- The Kid From Spavinaw
- The Man From God Knows Where
- The Next Thing Smokin
- The Old Rugged Cross
- The Railroad Boy
- The Rose Of Roscrae
- The Rose Of The San Joaquin
- The Santa Fe At Midnight
- The Sky Above The Mud Below
- The Water Is Wide
- Throwin Horseshoes At The Moon
- Throwing Horseshoes At The Moon
- Tonight We Ride
- Touch Of Evil
- Veterans Day
- Walkin On The Moon
- Walking On The Moon
- Wayfarin Stranger
- What Work Is
- When Sinatra Played Juarez
- When The Wolves No Longer Sing
- Where The Dream Begins
- Whos Gonna Build Your Wall
- Winnipeg
- Woodrow
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[Intro]
G Em
Look at that headlight shining through the rain
C D N.C.
It must be that old Santa Fe freight train
[Verse 1]
G Em
Yeah, I’m standing on Salteo Tile on an old adobe porch
C G
Across the street the Baptist church, God’s own neon torch
G
With my baby sleeping safe inside, I’m the shadow she’s the light.
C D G
Now here comes the sound of the Santa Fe at midnight.
[Verse 2]
G Em
Baby wakes up and calls to me: “What is that lonesome sound?
C G
It echoes off the mountains out near the lights of town.”
G
And I say, “Hush now, I come to you an hold you oh so tight
C D G
And rock you to the sound of the Santa Fe at midnight.”
[Chorus]
C G
Blowing through those cotton fields near Cana’tior river breaks
Em G
past the shanty towns of old Juarez,
C D
The eagle and the snake
C D Em
Blowin across West Texas rattlin' out of sight
C D G
The music of the Santa Fe at midnight,
Em D G
Making love to the sound of the Santa Fe at midnight.
[Instrumental Break]
C D G Em D G
[Verse 3]
G Em
Well look where we have ended up on the edge of the Great South West
C G
Starin’ at those restless trees along the water ditch
G
And up the Street the Rio Grande like Egypt’s old Blue Nile
C D G
With the memory of the early ones who rested here a while.
[Verse 4]
G Em
But now the freight trains and the long haul trucks, they’re passin’ through
C G
They don’t have the urge to wink at the likes of me and you
G
It’s all just diesel smoke, iron rail and a running string of lights
C D G
The music of the Santa Fe at midnight.
[Chorus]
C G
Blowing through those cotton fields near Cana’tior river breaks
Em G
past the shanty towns of old Juarez,
C D
The eagle and the snake
C D Em
Blowin across West Texas rattlin' out of sight
C D G
The music of the Santa Fe at midnight,
Em D G
Making love to the sound of the Santa Fe at midnight.
G Em
Look at that headlight shining through the rain
C D N.C.
It must be that old Santa Fe freight train
[Verse 1]
G Em
Yeah, I’m standing on Salteo Tile on an old adobe porch
C G
Across the street the Baptist church, God’s own neon torch
G
With my baby sleeping safe inside, I’m the shadow she’s the light.
C D G
Now here comes the sound of the Santa Fe at midnight.
[Verse 2]
G Em
Baby wakes up and calls to me: “What is that lonesome sound?
C G
It echoes off the mountains out near the lights of town.”
G
And I say, “Hush now, I come to you an hold you oh so tight
C D G
And rock you to the sound of the Santa Fe at midnight.”
[Chorus]
C G
Blowing through those cotton fields near Cana’tior river breaks
Em G
past the shanty towns of old Juarez,
C D
The eagle and the snake
C D Em
Blowin across West Texas rattlin' out of sight
C D G
The music of the Santa Fe at midnight,
Em D G
Making love to the sound of the Santa Fe at midnight.
[Instrumental Break]
C D G Em D G
[Verse 3]
G Em
Well look where we have ended up on the edge of the Great South West
C G
Starin’ at those restless trees along the water ditch
G
And up the Street the Rio Grande like Egypt’s old Blue Nile
C D G
With the memory of the early ones who rested here a while.
[Verse 4]
G Em
But now the freight trains and the long haul trucks, they’re passin’ through
C G
They don’t have the urge to wink at the likes of me and you
G
It’s all just diesel smoke, iron rail and a running string of lights
C D G
The music of the Santa Fe at midnight.
[Chorus]
C G
Blowing through those cotton fields near Cana’tior river breaks
Em G
past the shanty towns of old Juarez,
C D
The eagle and the snake
C D Em
Blowin across West Texas rattlin' out of sight
C D G
The music of the Santa Fe at midnight,
Em D G
Making love to the sound of the Santa Fe at midnight.
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